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Example sentences for: surly

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The surly spin, from Iran's chief theocrat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iran's "arrogant opponents felt the bitter taste of defeat."
A real-estate broker who fails to sell a big house (her only potential customers are blank-faced African-Americans, Indian-Americans, and surly lesbians), she wears a mask of perky efficiency and insists on listening to Muzak while she and her husband and daughter eat her "nutritious yet savory" dinners.
There are other genuine New England expressions in this volume—and plenty of them—including dingclicker humdinger, forth-putting bold, forward, grouty surly, sullen, Hampton boat a dory-type of sailboat used for fishing, and harness cask a tub used on ships for storing salted meat.
The White House helped itself with a brilliant outreach campaign that went around the sometimes surly Congressional Black Caucus and reached black voters directly through their ministers and churches.
The complaints covered the waterfront: baggage problems, surly flight attendants, mysteriously canceled flights, billing atrocities.